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Autumn school 2015

"The sensorimotor foundations of social cognition"

Autumn school

Boltenhagen, Baltic Sea, Germany

October 11-17, 2015

Sensorimotor approaches predict that social cognition does not primarily result from maintaining and running complex models of intentions and beliefs of other agents, but rather from patterns and regularities in the dynamic sensorimotor coupling between them. The school will take stock of concepts and models that follow this emerging view and illuminate them from the perspectives of relevant fields like social psychology, social cognitive neuroscience, robotics and philosophy of mind. Tangible outcomes of the school will be a set of articles on selected aspects of sensorimotor accounts of social cognition which will be authored by the participants and published in Scholarpedia (scholarpedia.org).

The school will be the first in a series which is funded and organized by the EU H2020 project "Socializing sensorimotor contingencies - socSMCs" (socSMCs.eu). This year the school is organized by the Dept. of Neurophysiology at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (uke.de/neurophysiology).

The registration fee is 300€ and covers participation in the school, accommodation in a single room, breakfast, lunch and three dinners. A reduced fee of 200€ is requested from participants willing to share a double room. Participants will have to cover their own travel expenses.

Content

The five-day school will be structured around the following themes:

Enactive and embodied views on social cognition

Non-reductionist, interaction-based approaches to social cognition

Entrainment vs. emulation and mindreading

Dynamical systems theory and social cognition

Neural mechanisms of social interaction: toward a second-person neuroscience

Mutual prediction and adaptation in social interaction

Motor resonance during human-robot interaction

The school will comprise keynote lectures in the mornings and discussion groups in the afternoons which serve for in-depth discussions of topics from the keynote lectures. Results from these discussions will be summarized and structured in drafts for Scholarpedia articles.

The school is open to PhD students and postdocs who are working on the themes addressed. Interested participants shall submit written information on their scientific background, projects involved, and motivation to attend. Admission will be on a competitive basis.

Applications should be sent via email to school2015@socSMCs.eu. Please state on a single page (11pt font):